What Distinguishes Graffiti from Scratch.
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Might it be the number or depth of scratches?
The definition of Graffiti: These coins exhibit intentional scratching or carving into a coin’s surface. Historically, some collectors have added their initials to coins, carved symbols, or other added patterns.
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A scratch looks accidental, graffiti looks intentional.
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Regardless of depth or number, scratches are or appear as accidental. Coins with obvious intentional scratching or carving would be graffiti.
Agee. In some cases, it's difficult to tell which one it is. Both are considered to be damage, and both hurt the value of the coin.
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Does this look intentional? Reverse is clean.
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Absolutely. Rotate the coin 90° CCW and you see the letters "DB" or "PB".
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The marks on the 1795 appear intentional and look to be initials.
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Take my profile picture as an example. Obviously graffiti. This actually was passed down to me from my Grandma with no explanation or story. It is a 1922-D and the reverse has been partially filed away.
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Graffiti is intentional and has a pattern or meaning.
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What about this one? It straight graded and has a CAC sticker and all that, but if you turn it upside down it looks like an A. I really like this coin and the scratch/graffiti doesn’t bother me, but I wonder how it got by PCGS and CAC when they are so picky sometimes about this sort of thing
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I would call it a scratch as to me it isn't obviously intentional. If it's enough to detail it depends on who's looking at the coin and how bad it looks at different angles and lighting.
It depends entirely on its appearance - are the scratches "random", or to they seem to line up in some kind of pattern or arrangement?
Obviously, a coin cannot record the "intent" of whoever or whatever scratched it. Statistically, the probability of a bunch of "random" scratches lining up to form a pattern of some kind is small, but not zero (three random scratches happening to line up to form the letter "A", for example). So some of the things branded as "graffiti" by the TPGs will in truth have been caused by random scratches. But this is irrelevant because, as with most things with the TPGs, it is the appearance that matters.
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